秋頌
濟慈
1
霧氣洋溢、果實圓熟的秋,
你和成熟的太陽成為友伴;
你們密謀用累累的珠球,
綴滿茅屋簷下的葡萄藤蔓;
使屋前的老樹揹負著蘋果,
讓熟味透進果實的心中,
使葫蘆脹大,鼓起了榛子殼,
好塞進甜核;又為了蜜蜂
一次一次開放過遲的花朵,
使它們以為日子將永遠暖和,
因為夏季早填滿它們的粘巢。
2
誰不經常看見你伴著穀倉?
在田野裡也可以把你找到,
彌有時隨意坐在打麥場上,
讓髮絲隨著簸谷的風輕飄;
有時候,為罌粟花香所沉迷,
你倒臥在收割一半的田壟,
讓鐮刀歇在下一畦的花旁;
或者.像拾穗人越過小溪,
你昂首揹著谷袋,投下倒影,
或者就在榨果架下坐幾點鐘,
你耐心地瞧著徐徐滴下的酒漿。
3
啊.春日的歌哪裡去了?但不要
想這些吧,你也有你的音樂——
當波狀的雲把將逝的一天映照,
以胭紅抹上殘梗散碎的田野,
這時啊,河柳下的一群小飛蟲
就同奏哀音,它們忽而飛高,
忽而下落,隨著微風的起滅;
籬下的蟋蟀在歌唱,在園中
紅胸的知更鳥就群起呼哨;
而群羊在山圈裡高聲默默咩叫;
叢飛的燕子在天空呢喃不歇。
英文原文如下:
John Keats (1795-1821) TO AUTUMN.1. SEASON of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eves run; To bend with apples the moss’d cottage-trees, And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core; To swell the gourd, and plump the hazel shells With a sweet kernel; to set budding more, And still more, later flowers for the bees, Until they think warm days will never cease, For Summer has o’er-brimm’d their clammy cells.
2. Who hath not seen thee oft amid thy store? Sometimes whoever seeks abroad may find Thee sitting careless on a granary floor, Thy hair soft-lifted by the winnowing wind; Or on a half-reap’d furrow sound asleep, Drows’d with the fume of poppies, while thy hook Spares the next swath and all its twined flowers: And sometimes like a gleaner thou dost keep Steady thy laden head across a brook; Or by a cyder-press, with patient look, Thou watchest the last oozings hours by hours.
3. Where are the songs of Spring?